Mylifeaffirmingbaristory

Category: Mental Health

  • Bariatric Storm Ready Strategies: Mindfulness, Nutrition, and Movement

    ⚠️Troubles and hard times come. That isn’t a Bariatric thing, that is a “we are alive” thing and I will be the first to admit that I have not always known how to be safe when the storms of life would rage around me. If I was to tell you the sheer number of things…

  • Invitation

    I have been invited to things in my life, I have been uninvited and I have been not invited – I think most of us can relate to at least two of those things and if you are like me, like to speak your mind, have no hesitation about calling things as you see it,…

  • When days are long!

    Sucking the marrow out of life has never been more enjoyable, or more fun than it has been over these past few days. I am exhausted but time has been well spent. Any investment into family is time that has been invested in the very best way. We have eaten out, laughed, played, been to…

  • Truth

  • A Pig

    Sitting on the main oval of her conservative Christian high school, she could feel the prickle of the browning turf under her thighs, It’s spikey texture poked uncomfortably into her arse, as the sun tried it’s best to beat down on her from above. Streaks of blistering light were fighting a continual battle with the…

  • Photo Roulette

    If you have never played this little gem of a game, you are missing out. We now have a change to the Covid-19 restrictions that we are living with and we are allowed to have 5 people visit our homes. Last night we played this with two close friends – the game is essentially this…

  • BODY SHAMING

    I know what it is like to be judged based on my size. I also know exactly how it feels to be shamed because of it. I have, at times, been contemplating certain items in the supermarket when people have pushed me aside and said “look at you, you won’t eat this anyway!” and pushed…

  • Finding the GOLDEN

    I feel like I spent years and years of my life going around with a blindfold tied firmly around my head. I put it on myself and I kept it there willingly mind you. I allowed myself to wallow in my own self loathing. I was totally convinced that life for me, was to a…

  • 6th of May 2020 🌟🌟Warning GRAPHIC SURGICAL PIC🌟🌟

    We are approaching the 2 year mark! On the 18th of June, it will be 2 years since I had RNY – Gastric Bypass. It has been a strange time. The changing, the growing, the turning into a different version of me. Dealing with the demons in my past and letting go of things and…

  • No More Wallowing

    There are a couple of things that have been on my mind lately and as always I am wanting to open up a dialogue about them. I can remember when I was first contemplating WLS again back in 2017. This was after my failed and horrendous lap band fiasco at the hands of a surgeon…